GREEN Party co-leader leader Jonathan Bartley was campaigning in Worcester last week, where he also sampled the art of dog wrestling.

During a lively exchange with a Labrador, this excitable retriever believed he'd found an ideal sparring partner, almost toppling him to the ground with glee.

With the Green's fondness for trees, this canine clearly thought he'd found someone equally as barking!

* SEAGULL-BASHING has become a favourite blood sport of many county politicians, but are the maligned birds finally fighting back?

The deputy leader of Worcestershire County Council, fresh from enduring his final ever cabinet meeting before stepping down, decided to stroll down Worcester High Street last week, with eye-opening consequences.

Councillor Anthony Blagg was promptly "dive-bombed" by the pesky scavengers - a fitting and terrifying sign-off.

* THE Source wouldn't expect Clare Marchant to remember every detail of her university days, but does she recall seeing a bloke banging on about the environment in the city's grim beer-sozzled clubs and pubs?

Worcester Green Councillor Matt Jenkins has realised he was at the University of Hull during the same period as Ms Marchant, back in the very early 1990s.

"I don't remember coming across her, but we were there at the same time," he tells us.

* ELECTION scrapes are par for the course this time of year, but Councillor Alan Amos caused a few quizzical looks while appearing at a county council scrutiny meeting last week with cuts all over his face.

"I haven't been in a fight, it's just a close shave," he said, in an important clarification.

* WHICH Worcester city councillor is leaving comments on our website pretending to be someone else?

This politician has been rather amusingly referring to himself in third person, even going as far as showering himself with praise, while posing as a member of the public.

And he's got the utter cheek to call other posters "faceless keyboard warriors".

* WORCESTER'S first 2017 election hustings takes place on Monday night, from 8pm in the Cap 'n' Gown pub, Upper Tything.

Just don't blame me if it descends into a boozy mess.